What could the curious passion do?
He would not to his Saviour turn;
His Saviour’s messenger he slew;
He saw, and laugh’d the Lord to scorn;
And thus a dire example set,
Still follow’d by the lawless great.
What could the curious passion do?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He desired to see him.'—[Luke 9,] v. 9.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 179.
Publishing: Public Domain